“For a time, relief had suffused him, effective as a sedative. He’d fallen asleep beside Raina even, but perhaps twenty minutes later, his eyes had popped open, and in a breath the worries were back, swarming his mind like ants and leaving him itchy as the afternoon arrived. Raina left to run errands, and practically the second he heard her truck drive away, he was on his knees in her bathroom, chasing the calm. For two hours Duncan scoured, scrubbed, polished, rinsed, until every last squar...e inch of porcelain and glass gleamed bright enough to blind. With the impulse surrendered to, Duncan felt calmer by a degree. He sat on the couch and tried to entice Astrid to visit, but she could always smell the panic on him—she never wanted a thing to do with him in the moments that preceded a cleaning bout or an anxiety attack. “Fair-weather friend,” he said to her retreating tail. Christ, he needed a job.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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